G Suite vs Bluehost

If you really need a good technical support and reliability then don't use bluehost. They were completely irresponsible in my email disappeaing issue which they still can't identify how it is happening. All they will tell when they can't find the solution is the case is escalated to higher technicians. Then after 3 days no email regarding the solution and again we have to start over the process repeats, no solutions. What ever the settings how can emails be disappeared automatically and frequently. Bluehost can't be trusted for business people who deal with daily emails and follow ups.

Many services offer so-called unlimited or unmetered service for whatever amount of bandwidth, disk storage and sites you use. It's important to understand that most terms of service actually do limit the definition of "unlimited" to what's considered reasonable use. The bottom line is simple: if you're building a pretty basic website, unlimited means you don't need to worry. But if you're trying to do something excessive (or illegal, immoral or fattening), the fine print in the terms of service will trigger, and you'll either be asked to spend more or go elsewhere.

They recently changed their tech support and it is now severely lacking. The people they are using do not know what they are doing and messed up my website without wanting to fix it. Took several days and hours on the phone to get them to fix the mistakes they made! I also dislike the pricing. When I first signed up, the prices were reasonable. Each time I renew, the prices are higher and higher, although they offer lower prices on their websites. According to them, sales and promotions are not available to current customers. It is a bait and switch since they email customers the promotions.
We have been with Hostgator since 2005 and use them for our web design clients as well, they are the best out there bar none. In almost a decade I have rarely seen any downtime of our website or our clients’ websites, Currently support request responses are a bit longer than they used to be since, but if a ticket isn’t answered in the time I need I just pick up a phone and call and get the problem solved almost immediately. Hostgator is highly recommended for quality hosting.
Formed in 2003, Bluehost has long since been a hosting innovator and leader. Today, the company powers more than two million websites and carries the official seal of approval given by the WordPress.org team for their managed WordPress services hosted on their VPS platform. With years of experience, competitive pricing, and excellent support, Bluehost is a pick you can take to the bank in the VPS hosting space.”
With Bluehost, new site owners have the drag-and-drop simplicity of Weebly (website builder) and goMobi (mobile site builder) at their fingertips. This makes launching a new online brand, store, or personal site from scratch relatively painless. Sure, site building has its headaches for newbies, but the Bluehost team is ready and willing to assist you every step of the way.
They have, literally, outsourced 100% of their customer support and tech support to a foreign their party that has no idea what they are doing. And even if their outsourced / 3rd party tech support was “OK”, that doesn’t excuse or explain completely cutting yourself off from your customers… the people that pay your bills. In my experience, that’s the beginning of the end for any company–when they simply do not want to have any direct contact–or feedback–from their customers.
FinancesOnline is available for free for all our business professionals interested in an efficient way to find top-notch SaaS solutions. We are able to keep our service free of charge thanks to cooperation with some of the vendors, who are willing to pay us for traffic and sales opportunities provided by our website. Please note, that FinancesOnline lists all vendors, we’re not limited only to the ones that pay us, and all software providers have an equal opportunity to get featured in our rankings and comparisons, win awards, gather user reviews, all in our effort to give you reliable advice that will enable you to make well-informed purchase decisions.

During my last semester of teaching I was approached by one of my students who said he could optimize my site and get many more readers quickly, but found some security flaws in the site which should be fixed first. He offered to fix it himself for free, but first I contacted support. They did not do much and claimed the site was in good standing with security.

If you want to check on the status of websites hosted on Bluehost, you can go to bluehost.com/hosting/serverstatus and type in your domain name or account name, they will then send you an update on whether the sites are working properly or not. You can also use this free tool to check if your website (or any website for that matter) is down or not.
Bluehost has been a bad experience! We started using Bluehost about 5 years ago to host a few of our company websites. Things were fine. Then we added more websites, as well as our company email. In the last few months, we noticed our websites would go blank during the day. No explanation from Bluehost as to why it was happening – you would think they might contact us and inform us of the problem, and offer some solutions. We had to contact them – their suggestion was to move to a dedicated host because our website traffic was too large for a shared server. So we migrated. Apparently Bluehost does zero backups, and we lost a lot of valuable emails in the process. They also removed our SSL certificate, and told us it would cost $149/yr per site to get it back (we host about 20 sites). It also altered our ability to upload media files to our websites via wordpress, adversely limiting our ability to do work on our websites. Their answer is to use FTP – however, when you have 10 people who work on your websites and are familiar with WordPress, there is a learning curve to FTP.
For me Bluehost was quick and easy to use and has responsive and helpful support. Their hosting was easy to setup with enough features and options for my small site. When I first set up my site I needed help with MX record setup for my email and their support team was very knowledgeable and quick to respond. If nothing else, their support was well worth the price.
Please beware and steer clear of BLUEHOST as web hosts. We spent 2 years and thousands of dollars making a classifieds website . It had traffic of 5 - 15,000 per day and was growing . Blue host discovered there were personals ads on our website and immediately blocked it and removed the whole URL with zero warning or notice . They informed us we had 48 hours before account was wiped and we weren't able to access cPanel to get a proper backup. The only backups we had were over a month old which was our fault but if they had of given warning or allowed us in just once to make backups we'd be fine. Stay away from these scumbags. They wiped away months of work and thousands of dollars because they're based on UTAH so likely they Mormon fuckers. Stay away from their hosting they are scum and the business suffered immensely simply because they don't have any common courtesy . Scum all of them . Thanks
I would like to thank all those who have taking time out to write about their experiences with Bluehost. I am writing simply because you have saved me a fortune of Wealth not necessary money but stress, frustration, anger, time, and even depression. I had wanted to buy a Dedicated Hosting and Domain from Bluehost and for their Website Builders to build my Website for me discussion on Chat concluded yesterday at about this time for their Website builder to call me tomorrow. However somehow The Lord Works in a Mysterious ways indeed, l was just checking out Dreamhost and decided to check Bluehost review and l felt so, so sorry the way individual have been treated after reading 110 BAD REVIEWS AGAINT BLUEHOST according to TRUSTPILOT. This is very wrong and l am giving them 1Star in support of people who have gone through hard times with Bluehost and still have the courage to write a review to help people like myself who are yet to fall a victim. Thank you all the reviewers. I have since walked away and will Chat to them soon to cancel the appointment for tomorrow. This is unbelievable and unprofessional of Bluehost, shocking as Wordpress.org still have them as their official distributor, so l read on search engine, and l really worried too about Wordpress.org as they should do something about all these complains coming against their official distributor. I am really very grateful for this lucky escape truly! THANK YOU!
BlueHost, one of the most recognizable names in the web hosting industry with over 2M domain names under management, has been providing quality hosting solutions to thousands of business and personal web sites since 1996. Their "professional hosting" plan includes all the features you might need at the best possible price. Today, BlueHost is a part of Endurance International Group.
FinancesOnline is available for free for all our business professionals interested in an efficient way to find top-notch SaaS solutions. We are able to keep our service free of charge thanks to cooperation with some of the vendors, who are willing to pay us for traffic and sales opportunities provided by our website. Please note, that FinancesOnline lists all vendors, we’re not limited only to the ones that pay us, and all software providers have an equal opportunity to get featured in our rankings and comparisons, win awards, gather user reviews, all in our effort to give you reliable advice that will enable you to make well-informed purchase decisions.
Bluehost claims that its Search Engine Jumpstart service or SoloSEO allows rapid indexing of your website on Google, Yahoo and Bing search engines. It includes a Head-to-Head Comparative Analysis Report for critical ranking criteria. You also get a step-by-step DIY SEO program and an eBook on improving the SEO rankings of your website. Though, this service looks promising for a newbie, there are several cheaper or free SEO tools available in the market that can be used for the same purpose.
Websites often run very slowly on Bluehost servers, where they ran very quickly on our local and live development servers. I've had numerous clients complain that their website goes down frequently, or that they have email problems. We had a client recently switch to a more reliable host because their email problems became too much to handle. Frankly, the ups and downs of the servers and the headaches that come with that aren't worth the cheap price.
There's some complicated elements to the interface, but after some learning and hiding things you don't use, it's tolerable. I've also had strange uptime issues over the years. Client emails have bounced due to perfectly good domains being blacklisted (blame it on other shared users on the same server). This is a problem which they reverse, but it takes time and people can't send their emails for a while.
At the time of my blogging starting days, I do not know anything how to start a blog, how to choose good web hosting, how to write articles, etc. I started my blogging journey with Blogspot blog on 2008. Started with 5 blogs with different topics. After one and a half year of my journey, three blogs disabled by Google. Here my mind is blank. What next… What next …. What next…. Started hunting for better solutions for my journey. One of the Facebook friends suggested and introduced Self-hosted WordPress hosting. He configured everything for me. Again started my second journey. After three months the hosting service stopped my blog. Again another break on my journey.
Although this hosting company gets a few mixed reviews, they come recommended by WordPress, which is one of the most popular blogging platforms. The hosting company also offers a WordPress auto-install, which makes getting set up quick and easy for someone without a lot of webdesign experience. Unlimited disk space and bandwidth transfer are also a nice addition. Rates start at $4.95/month (if you pay in advance), so it is also reasonably priced for someone trying things out.
You can pretty much judge / rate / review ANY company–in ANY industry–by their level of customer support. And from the perspective, Bluehost should be rated a 1 out of 10. If you are an existing Bluehost customer, there is literally no way to contact them directly. They have an 888# and a chat feature only… both of which are outsourced to India and take a LONG time to get through to anyone… and usually results in zero actual assistance or results.
SiteLock Security software provided by Bluehost ensures safety of your website against spam, malware and other vulnerabilities. It scans your site daily for malware to make sure that it is not being blocked or spammed and checks against cross-site attacks (XSS scripting), SQL Injection etc. Also you get to display SiteLock certificate on your website which establishes the trustworthiness of your business.

They will make you pay for their own mistake. Charge us 1 month for the same subscription we had after calling them way ahead of time to downgrade our subscription. On top of that if you want to refund from your disputed charges deal it the same day because if they tell you they left a note so when you call back again they will know what's going on in your account FLAT OUT LIE. The next person you will talk to will say that the other person you had talk to the other day was wrong and they did their math this suppose to be the charge. ( refund become more lesser than expected maybe if you call again on the next day your refund will become zero. Every person have their different calculation.) and they will tell you they don't know how that representative come up with the noted amount ( that's after 20 mins. Waiting ). As if we come up with the amount ourselves. They are the one who gives us the number and explain the reason and maybe accidentally told you about the mistake on their part. They have recorded voice calls how about hear that so we all are on the same page. I know it's just a penny the amount but we work hard for that. And we don't cut corners in every client we have and even we are small business we value customer and honor our word. That's impirtabt. You don't say your colleague have different calculation than you have.

Great question! Most good web hosts tend to offer 24/7 customer support and acknowledge that their customers are from all around the world so I wouldn’t worry too much about using an international host. As a Swede I find myself using a lot of US-based hosting companies and I don’t think it’s ever negatively affected me or the customer service I get.
SiteLock Security software provided by Bluehost ensures safety of your website against spam, malware and other vulnerabilities. It scans your site daily for malware to make sure that it is not being blocked or spammed and checks against cross-site attacks (XSS scripting), SQL Injection etc. Also you get to display SiteLock certificate on your website which establishes the trustworthiness of your business.
All of this infrastructure has been built out to support the a wide range of hosting services. The family-owned company gains points for understanding the importance of transaction security by offering free AutoSSL and Let's Encrypt SSL encryption for its plans. While the company offers sophisticated services for technically strong clients, it also has a Weebly web builder option to get you up and running quickly.

Hi Lisa… good review you’ve written. I know you criticize Bluehost for not offering website free backups, but did you know that it’s really easy to do yourself? Even my grandma could do it! Cpanel comes with a click-of-a-button website backup and restore, also if your site is on WordPress there are numerous free plugins that can do a full site backup and restore. Just my $0.02/ Tommy

I Am to the edge of losing my job now due to the worst desision of my life: moving to Bluehost! It was so a terrible mistake, it has been a nightmare since the beginning. I can firmly tell you after talking to one after one after one support agent thay they don’t have the slightest idea of what they are talking about, support agents can barely speak good english (worst than mine), they talk like they are on India or somewhere there, and they are not prepare for REAL TROUBLE, they are just prepared to dumb solutions like: restart your computer, use another browser, it is your ISP problem, for God’s sake! This is a nightmare.